The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-24

ground intended for your onions.
Even two or three feeds Of cooked
turnips or potatoes each week is better
than to emit such food altogether. 1t
is variety that promotes health and keeps
the stock in condition.
Carriages and farm wagons might be
made to last twice as long if only few
moments were spent each week during
dry weather in tightening up the bolts
that hold the wagon together.
Whenever it is noticed that the hogs
eat gravel it is sign that something
they need is lacking. A few pieces Of
coal or charcoal will probably be cure,
while the food should at the same time
be varied.
All fowls that feather closely arc usu.
ally hardy. For instance, the Brahmas.
1t is owing to the fact that tho drain on
the system occasioncd by quick feather
ing does not weaken them. Slow feath-
ering while growing is indicative OF
hardyness.
Cows need light, not only for their
own health and comfort, but because
good butter cannot be made from the
milk Of cows kept in dark stables. Air,
| light, cleanliness and warmth arc four cs-
sentas of q COW stable where cows are
kept for profit.
If your garden plot is selected, rake
it over as soon as the weather will per-
nit and burn up every vcstige of grass
and weeds, so as to destroy not only
seeds but insects A covering of straw,
leaves or stalks burned over tho ground
will be an advantage.
Potato growers should 60 over the
field with common harrow, running
lengthwise of the rows. just before the
plants push their noses through, and
thus destroy all the weeds; afterward
cultivate through the season, using only
the common cultvator.
For old stock that cannot properly
masticatc the whole grains there is moth
ing that will fattcn so readily as ten
parts meal and one part linseed meat.
If the mixture be moistcned with warm
water and slightly sailed to give it sea-
| soning, the animals will eat it clean.
Charred wood from the stove, or char
coal in any shape, is excellent for hogs
1t is best to keep charcoal in the pens,
where the hogs can always have free ac-
cess to it. Rotton wood is also rclished
by hogs, and they are very fond of
burnt bread or other charred substances.
Bone meal is excellent for all kinds of
poultry, as it not only supplies them
with phosphates and Il proportion of
nitrogen, but also of lime for the shells
of eggs. 1t is used largely in the food
Of young chicks. Broken or pounded
bones are more acceptable to adult fowls
than bone meal.
1t is claimed that 400 pounds of but
ter per annum is the average for Jersey
cows, but this is high estimate, con-
sidering the neglect given them on
some farms. The cows do not average
more than 800 milking days in the
year, and to produce 400 pounds of but
ter every year calls for a product of
nearly nine pounds of butter per week
for each COW.
Mixing lime with any kind of manure
will cause decomposition quickly, but
at the loss of the volatile matter. II
will not be beneficial to use lime with
manure, except when about to apply
the manure to the land, for then the
soil, which is usually damp, will arrest
the escape OF ammonia, especially if the
manure be narrowed in or well incor-
porated with the soil.
If corn fodder be cut and crushed SO
as to be in the same condition as Or
binary cut food, and moistened, horses
can be kept through the winter in good
condition upon it, but proportion of
some kind of ground grain must be
also allowed, as the cornfodder, though
serving to supply bulky food, must be
balanced by material of more concen.
trated character.
As protection to trees against MICE
rabbits, borers, etc, a screen made OF
common window wire is recommended.
The wire is cut into strips about six
inches wide, across the end of the roll
, (Which is usually about two feet in
width J and the strips wound around
broom handle. When placed around
trees the spring of the wire holds them
t in place and they do not bind the
tree.